Chapter Seventy-Four: Gaze

In the afternoon, on a street in Anlu City, Di Jun was leading several soldiers to his home, and those soldiers were pushing a wheelbarrow with heavy rice bags, copper coins and some silk cloth, which were the 'wages' that Di Jun received after returning to Anlu with the army.

At noon today, Yuwen Wen, the Duke of Xiyang County and the unified army, led the new army back to Anlu and stationed in the barracks, and Di Jun's family lived in the city and took leave to take home the 'salary', and as a military Chinese book, in addition to military salaries, he also wrote family letters for soldiers, which were free for soldiers and paid for those who wrote family letters, and the expenses were distributed by pieces in the army, and these rice, silk cloth, and copper coins were the 'pen fees' he had saved over the past few months.

There is also the copper money that has always been wrapped around his waist, which is a little heavy, but Di Jun is full of pride in his heart: this is what he earned with his own ability, and he can have food without looking at his father's face!

From childhood to adulthood, he and his two younger brothers grew up in their father's rules, and they were not allowed to do this or that, they were like birds in a cage, and now he had an errand to get out of the cage and fly freely outside, and there was no family law to serve!

"Which way is it now?" A soldier asked, the street in front of him was divided into three strands: left, center, and right, the road on the left was more secluded, and the houses along the road looked a little dilapidated, and the street scene in the middle and right was slightly more prosperous.

The soldiers all knew that the father of the Wei Di Wen was the governor of the palace, and he was a big official in Anlu City, and now he was thinking about whether the road to his house was in the middle or on the right, but he didn't know the specific one, and he didn't expect the Di Wen to take the lead to the left road.

The breeze blew and brought a few fallen leaves from the street to the side of the road, the wheelbarrow squeaked on the bluestone road, and the bungalows on both sides of the road were coughing, snoring, and crying from time to time. This area looks like a clear gathering place for the common people.

The soldiers who originally thought that the house of Di Wenwen was a deep mansion compound were a little puzzled when they saw this, but it was not easy to ask. They wondered how an official as big as his father could live in such a marketable place.

"That's the front." Di Jun pointed to a courtyard in front of him and said. When everyone heard this, their eyes froze: they saw that the gate of the courtyard that Di Jun was referring to was closed, but it was normal to close the door, and the key was that there was a seal on the door!

Could it be that the clerical family was copied and then sealed by the government?

Seeing everyone's shocked eyes, Di Jun coughed dryly, and explained a little embarrassed, don't think too much about him, go to open the door, and when he walked to the door, he couldn't help muttering in his heart: Father is really not at home.

My father would put a seal on the door every time he went out, in case someone took advantage of his absence to give gifts and leave at home to ruin his official reputation, and he was afraid that his brothers would secretly run out and 'rely on his father's identity to harm the people and do evil'.

Everyone saw that the clerk was carefully fiddling with the seal, as if it was about to be taken off completely, and a soldier was about to ask if he needed his help, but heard a cough behind him.

Looking back, I don't know when two men were standing behind me. A middle-aged man in front of him was dressed in an official uniform, followed by a domestic servant.

"Da Lang, what is this?" The middle-aged man asked, there was no trace of emotion in his words, it seemed like he was trying a case in the hall and talking to the suspect, and Di Di, who was originally unsealing the seal, heard that a spirit stood up straight.

He turned around stiffly and faced the middle-aged man, squeezing out a smile as much as he could, and replied, "Father, I'm back." ”

The middle-aged man was Di Jun's father, Lu Di Shiwen, the secretary of the Anzhou Governor's Office, and at this time he looked at his son and then swept his eyes around the wheelbarrow next to several soldiers.

It's like an official looking at the stolen goods in the hands of a caught thief.

"What are these?" Still expressionless, he asked.

Somehow sweat broke out on his forehead, and his original neat mouth also stammered: "Father, this is a salary, not a military salary." ”

"You let them bring it here?"

"No, it's not the commander who told them to help." Di Jun no longer has the heroic momentum of Fang Cai, and his current performance is more like a mouse seeing a cat, and his father's more than ten years of prestige is not something he can resist overnight.

After a moment, he stared at his son's eyes and then looked at several soldiers: "Ladies and gentlemen, is what the dog said true?" ”

Eyes swept in. The soldiers suddenly felt chills all over their bodies, and it felt like there was a dispute on a normal day, and the government demanded justice. The kind of gaze that Ming Fu looks at: doubt.

"No, it's not." One of the soldiers returned, and when he heard him say this, he immediately looked at his son, and his eyes became fierce.

"Wei Di Wen has helped me and so on a lot on weekdays, and this time he took rice home and I took a few leave with the unified army to help." The other soldier replied, and when he heard this, he looked at the other soldiers suspiciously, and when he saw that they all nodded vigorously, he eased his tone:

"This official has thanked you for the dog."

After saying that, Di Di Shi Wen arched his hand to thank him, and then led the servant to the courtyard gate, he carefully removed the seal, and then handed it to the servant to collect, Di Di saw this, and quickly pushed the gate open, beckoned the soldiers to push the wheelbarrow into the courtyard.

Sweating profusely, he commanded them to carry the rice to the kitchen, and after some tossing, the soldiers took their leave, and when they left the courtyard, they all had palpitations: they looked at them with a gaze like a knife.

In the study, Di Shiwen looked at his eldest son and asked what was going on, and Di Di touched the cold sweat on his forehead and began to explain, saying that his mouth was dry and he explained the ins and outs of the matter.

"The military salary is nine hundred and ten wen per month, one wen per letter, and there is" Di Shiwen muttered, and Di Di quickly added when he saw this: "There is also a reward, this time Yuwen Tong's army burned Jiangjin Shu and received a reward, and everyone in the army has a share." ”

"The child got 12 stones for rice this time, five pieces of money, and three horses of silk."

"Jun'er has a lot of bad habits in this army, and sending soldiers to do things at will is one of them." Di Shiwen looked at his son and said word by word, "Ji Han Liu Xuande has a saying, don't take evil as a small thing." ”

"The child obeys his father's instruction." He replied that he was like a docile little sheep in front of his father.

After the father and son had spoken for a while, he summoned his servants to arrange for dinner and vegetables. Seeing that his father was still busy with official business, he got up and retired. Turning around in the courtyard, seeing that there was a distance from the study, two teenagers, one big and one small, suddenly jumped out of the corner: "Brother! ”

"Shh Di Jun made a gesture of silence. Looking back to make sure that there was no one behind him, he took out two paper-wrapped meatloaf from his arms, and the two teenagers saw that their eyes lit up, and when they waited for Xi Dijun to stuff the bread into his hand, they devoured it.

"Eat slowly, eat slowly!" Seeing that the two younger brothers were eating in a hurry, he almost choked, and quickly patted his back, and the palm-sized meatloaf was eaten up by the two teenagers in an instant, this is the meatloaf he bought from the barracks, the price is fair, the portion is sufficient, and he is reluctant to eat it on weekdays, and now it is a 'meeting gift' for his younger brothers when he comes home as a brother.

The meatloaf was fragrant, and in order to prevent his father from noticing, he wrapped it tightly in letter paper and asked the other soldiers to smell it to make sure it was odorless before carrying it home in his arms.

"Brother, do you still have meatloaf?" The older one asked with big blinked eyes, and the other also looked at Di Jun with blank eyes.

"Not anymore. There will be more later. Di Jun touched the heads of his two younger brothers distressedly and said, his father always said that fish raw phlegm meat makes fire, insisted on coarse tea and light rice, the food at home is light, and there is not much meat on weekdays, and the two younger brothers are always hungry when they have a good appetite, but the meat is always not enough, and now he has an income, so he secretly buys meat patties and brings them back to his younger brother to satisfy his hunger.

"Don't talk about leaking your mouth when you eat for a while, eat as much as you want, remember?" Di Jun whispered to the two younger brothers, and the three brothers were confessing to each other, but they didn't expect that there was a person around the corner behind them who was quietly watching all this.

That person was Di Shiwen, he took in the appearance of his three sons who were stealing meatloaf, and seeing that the three brothers were sneaky, he did not come forward to expose and then enforce the family law, but sighed softly and turned to leave......

In the evening, a horse-drawn carriage was driven on the streets of Anlu surrounded by more than a dozen guards. Yu Wenwen and Xiao Jiuniang sat side by side in the carriage, and after returning to Anlu today, he first led the army to settle down in the barracks. After everything had been arranged, he boarded the carriage sent by the government and went back.

"Don't be afraid, Madame is reasonable and easy to speak." He cheered up Xiao Jiuniang, who was about to enter the mansion to 'visit', she was a little restless because she was about to see the eldest woman, and when she arrived in Anlu today, she and the Wang shopkeeper and his wife, Zheng Tong's family and the little novice Wuming stayed in an arranged courtyard, and waited until Yu Wenwen came to pick her up in a carriage just now and returned to the house together.

"Why don't you change the day" Xiao Jiuniang's voice became smaller and quieter, and Yu Wenwen didn't say much, just held her hand and rubbed it gently.

After a while, the convoy arrived outside the Xiyang County Mansion, and the housekeeper Li Sanjiu, who had been waiting for a long time, and a group of servants greeted the lord Lang back to the house, Yuwen Wen and Li Sanjiu said a few words, and then pulled Xiao Jiuniang straight to the backyard.

At the door of the backyard, Yuwen Fifteen, who had a blue nose and swollen face, was standing with his hands down, Yuwen Wen raised his eyebrows when he saw this, and he only felt that there was a lot of murder in the backyard, he introduced Miss Xiao to Liu Caiyun who was waiting on the side, and asked her to talk with her, and then stepped into the courtyard with his head held high.

In the hospital, Wei Chi Chi Fan and Yang Lihua waited for a long time, Yu Chi Chi Fan stood with his stomach held up and stood with the support of Yahuan Cuiyun, and Yang Lihua stood next to him with his infant brother Que in his arms, and the two bowed down when they saw Yuwen Wen approaching: "Concubine to welcome your husband back home." ”

"If you don't have it, why should your family be so polite." Yu Wenwen stepped forward to help the two of them with his hands, and he saw that Yu Chi Chifan and Yang Lihua looked good, nodded and said, "For her husband to be away from home for several months, Sanniang and Lihua have worked hard to take care of the housework. ”

"Is Brother Magpie obedient now?" He looked at his son in Yang Lihua's arms and asked, the little guy was squinting his eyes and sleeping, so his attempt to tease his son failed.

A few days after his son was born, he, as a father, led the army for nearly three months before returning, and Yu Wenwen felt that he was a little derelict in his duty.

"Brother Que, it's only a few days away from three months, where do you know what the concubine said." Yang Lihua looked at Brother Que and said angrily, "I'll sleep when I'm full all day."

"Let's go in first, Madame is not well, let's go into the house and talk." After Yu Wenwen finished speaking, he was about to go inside, but Wei Chi Chi glanced at the courtyard gate when he heard this, and Yang Lihua also looked over there 'inadvertently'.

Both of their eyes focused on the body of a person outside the hospital, that person was a guest brought back by her husband, and she was also a woman who was clearly going to be taken as a concubine, and a few days ago she wrote a letter saying that the two of them had nothing to do with it, but now they both brought it back and stood in front of it.

"Look at my memory, I forgot to tell my wife." Yuwen Wen said with a dry cough, he turned around and beckoned to the outside of the courtyard, signaling Liu Caiyun to bring Miss Xiao in.

Xiao Jiuniang came to Yu Chi Chifan, and after being introduced by Yu Wenwen, she bowed and saluted: "Xiao Jiuniang has seen Madame"

"My sister has been tired all the way, let's go to my sister's place to have a meal together." After Yu Chi Chifan finished speaking, he smiled slightly, and took the helpless Xiao Jiuniang and walked into the house, Yang Lihua glanced at Yu Wenwen when she saw this, her eyes were meaningful, and then she followed silently.

'Something is wrong' Yu Wenwen felt that it was not good, and felt that the situation had been out of his prediction, so he was worried, and his wife behaved in a down-and-out manner, but he always felt that his gaze was a little wrong, and so was Yang Lihua in the side room.

Could it be that the two of them have 'colluded' and are ready to set up? No, I'm going to strike first! (To be continued.) )